I hate having to explain or elaborate on something glaringly obvious in an academic paper, like. Do I really have to dissect that scene in iron man 3 where a US military officer, nicknamed alternately "iron patriot" and "war machine", breaks into a suspected terrorist hideout and instead finds several women in niquabs working in a sweatshop, who see his red-white-and-blue armor and rejoice as he liberates them. Like. What more is there to say. It's like that poem about the glow in the dark star painted over with landlord white. Just look at it, it's on the screen
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My thoughts no longer conflict.
This is a good show and i really wish we couldve seen it when we were around the age we read the books, but alas, we are here and making the best of what we can enjoy.
Have we lost so much from the books? We did. Did we get so much more content in return. WE DID! Now, instead of remaking the books line by line, they got the chance to revise. In an interview, the producers said that they were happy to see Rick get a chance at looking back at something he wrote twenty years ago, and add on to that, change, remove etc. Not anyone gets a chance like this.
And with this power the they held, they chose to portray Medusa in a completely new way, they added Grover's singing and beautiful dialogues between the trio and it was all spectacular.
They never went out of character, they never changed the plot completely, but rather gave us new content in the context we were all familiar with, and longing for.
Now imagine they didn't do that. Imagine they straight out acted out the book lines one by one.
Firstly, Medusa is 'a middle eastern looking' woman with a niquab. ( 1) racist, 2)cultural appropriation) and is totally evil with no reason other than "she's a monster idk".
Secondly, they cast people according to their looks. The first book viewed the demigods as so homogenous and resembling to their parents that the whole Apollo cabin looked indistinguishable, so did the children of Athena. The camp would be so filled with little white kids. Just looking around you in a school in a western country would make you see how far from reality this is.
They repeatedly condemned the usage of phones saying it attracted the monsters. Go say that to a gen alpha kid who is the target audience. In 2020s, that had no chance of making it into the series.
Annabeth blushed when she saw Luke, she threw hints here and there suggesting she liked her. (I think the removal of this plotline suggests the removal of Luke being a pedo and attempt at grooming and THANK GODS for that.)
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Pointing out that tel aviv has pride parades and homosexuality is literally illegal and punishable with jail or death in most islamic countries, even outside the middle east, is not in any way "pinkwashing". Its reality.
Nobody is saying israel is perfect, but a place where gay people arent beheaded for being gay is actually, materially, measurably a better place then somewhere not.
Not to mention for women, aka half the population forced to wear oppressive headgear and sometimes burkas and disgusting niquabs, that they hate and protest against whenever they can.
Islam is a religion, which is a dogma and a doctrine- a set of ideas. Ideas are not immune to criticism.
Ideas like "woment dont need to be shamed and covered" are shitty and thoughts like "gay people need to be punished" are despicable, whether they come from a christian in california or a muslim in morocco
Pretending otherwise is willful ignorance
Where in the hell did you get any of this from a post talking about israel’s government propaganda attempting to justify genocide
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K idk if ill be attacked for this but the fact the AB made Evelyn a Jewish woman wear a Niquab,a Muslim fullbody covering is kinda icky im muslim and all my previous muslim mutuals agreed and AB obviously only made her wear that to apear more "diversive" without actually puting in the effort to research/make a muslim character
This.
I screenshotted this to my friend the other day because this exact topic was brought up.
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I hope the person who posed a while back about how growing up in a community where women generally wear niquab absolutely immunized them against western "spooky cloaked figure" imagery is doing all right
That post lives in my head rent free as both a reminder of cultural variance in storytelling shorthand
but also because I can no longer see a Nazgul-type image without having "mashallah sister I love your kickass sword" echoing in my mind
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Body language #niquab #oxfordstreet #london #streetphotography #streetphotographers #tdmmag #streetphotgraphymagazine #streetphotographyintheworld #yourshotphotographer #swpaopen2022 #swpa (at Oxford Street London Shopping Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYRa1AqIOZW/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Went into town for the first time in a while to get a surprisingly rare library book and was chilling in the library for a bit.
This woman in a niqab was chillen and sharing a table with me and this tiny little kid wandered away from his mom and sort of dinked around before slowly coming up to her.
I was waiting for the usual “what’s that on your face?” Thing but this kid taps her on the arm and whispers “Are you a Mandolorian?”
She was laughing and the little boys mom came over and apologized for him bothering her studies. She repeated his question to his mom and they both chuckled a bit. This little boys mom asked her to explain to her son why she wore a niqab so he could learn about it.
And guys it was a GOOD moment. His eyes were so big while she was explaining her religion and he asked so many cute little questions and I could tell it made that woman’s day.
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Important announcement
Lesbian Hijabis and Niquabis??? beautiful!!!
Bi/Pan/Omni Hijabis and Niquabis?? lovely!!
Trans Hijabis and Niquabis?? gorgeous!!!!
Enby and GNC Hijabis and Niquabis??? stunning!!!
Ace and Arospec Hijabis and Niquabis?? breathtaking!!!
Queer Muslims who veil in any shape or form?? absolutely perfect and hella valid!!! I know you get excluded from the community quite often and I just wanted to say that LGBTQ+ spaces are for you as well and that Allah loves you ❤ have a great day :)
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In the Arab society, the veil belongs to the clothing traditions of the Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan, and Libyan national societies. For the tourist and the foreigner, the veil demarcates both Algerian society and its feminine components. In the case of the Algerian man, on the other hand, regional modifications can be noted: the fez in urban centers, turbans and djellabas in the countryside. The masculine garb allows a certain margin of choice, a modicum of heterogeneity.
Frantz Fanon, Algeria Unveiled
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Taif -Saudi Arabia
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Varchi spazio-temporali – Space-time gaps
Varchi spazio-temporali, da Cape Town a Baku.
Piroette cerquettiane istintive e leggere su ponti Einstein-Rosen.
Alfabeti che non conosco, occhi che non distinguo, parole che non so.
Un solo grande Maestro di vita e gloria…il Cammino.
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Space-time gaps, from Cape Town to Baku.
Instinctual and light acrobatic pirouettes on Einstein-Rosen bridges.
Alphabets I don’t know, eyes I don’t recognize, words I don’t recall.
One great Master of life and glory…the Track.
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